Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) in 1975 was pleasantly surprised when he was received by a devotee of the “International Society for Krishna consciousness” during his visit to Frankfurt Trade Fair with a flower garland and was gifted Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita.

Harinama under the rain in Sydney (Album with photos)
Kalasamvara Das: We're chanting in the rain
Just chanting in the rain
What a glorious feelin
We're happy again
We're laughing at clouds

June 4. ISKCON 50 – S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations.
Satsvarupa dasa Goswami: Lunch at 26 Second Avenue.
It’s amazing to think how, in the beginning of ISKCON in America, Prabhupada used to eat lunch with the devotees. He used to serve them prasadam. That’s mentioned in the Prabhupada-lilamrta and some devotees’ memoirs. Prabhupada would walk between the devotees seated on the floor and he would dish out the prasadam, just as our brahmacari servers do now in the temples. The devotees would see Prabhupada’s bare feet, and...

Here is another way to have people pronounce the holy name with commotion and broadcast it to many thousands others who are listening! (4 min video)
There is this famous football player named Roy Krishna and every time he gets the ball the commentator tells his name, especially when he makes goals. Hear with how much intensity they pronounce the name of the Lord, unknowingly doing heaps of advancement!
[Sukadeva Gosvami to King Pariksit]: Even if he chants the Lord’s name jokingly or by chance, he and anyone who hears him are freed from all s...

ISKCON’s annual Interfaith and Communications Conference in Florence (Album with photos)
ISKCON’s annual Interfaith and Communications Conference was this year held in Florence. 16 countries participated and we were visiting most interesting and beautiful places like: Il Duomo - Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore; Santa Croce, with the tombs of Michelangelo, Dante and Galileo Galilei, and the robes of St Francis of Assisi. We also visited the Great Synagogue of Florence where we got a tour with the present Rabbi. And finally we met a politi...

Govindas vivid street kirtan by the Sydney Opera House: (Album with photos)
Kalasamvara Das: 1.7 million people flock to this ......

Bhaktivedanta Gurukula Excels in ICSE / ISC Board Results.
Nirmala Krishna Das, Vice-Principal (Admin): The management of Bhaktivedanta Gurukula & International School, Vrindavan is pleased to inform that our students of classes 10th & 12th have performed very well in the ICSE & ISC Board examinations.
The following are the top scorers
GRADE: 12 SCIENCE
SANCHIT LAKRA: 93.5
KRISHNA MURARI : 90
ABHISHEK MISHRA: 90
GAURAV LAKRA: 90
GRADE: 10 SCIENCE
GAUTAMESHWAR : 92.8
ARJUN GUPTA: 91.6
HARDIK GUPTA: 91...

Australian Iskcon Annual General Meeting (Album with photos)
Ramai Swami: At the end of May the leaders around Australia assemb......

Hare Krishna devotees in town! (Album with photos)
Devotees of Hare Krishna came to Eastbourne, UK, this week during a five day......

June 3. ISKCON 50 – S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations.
Satsvarupa dasa Goswami: The Bowery Bum Offers Service.
Suddenly a Bowery derelict enters, whistling and drunkenly shouting. The audience remains seated, not knowing what to make of it.
Drunk: How are ya? I’ll be right back. I brought another thing.
Prabhupada: Don’t disturb. Sit down. We are talking seriously.
Drunk: I’ll put it up there. In a church? All right. I’ll be right back.
The man is white-haired, with a short, grizzly beard and frowsy clothin...

Sri Harinam Sankirtan Nectar in Sydney 02-06-16 (Album with photos)
Tonight the city was filled with the loud and clear sound of the Mahamantra tugging at the hearts of all the souls wandering in the material world.
Fourteen wonderful devotees came with us and pulled back the veil of maya with their melodious chanting.
We started at our usual place near Woolworths and wound our way down through Pitt Street mall. Then we came back along George Street to Town Hall.
As usual people welcomed us along the way with smiles and waves. Many people fe...

Scenes from Krishna conscious life in the Holy Dham. Photos by a professional photographer.
Srila Prabhupada: Krishna is living everywhere, that is the vision of the higher devotees. Actually He’s living, but still because we are in the lower condition, we should know that here is Krishna in the temple. Krishna is everywhere, but for us, because we have no such vision to see Krishna anywhere and everywhere, therefore we should come here in the temple and see Krishna. “Here is Krishna. Krishna has kindly appeared here in a manner in which I c...

Harinama in a Gipsy colony (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: A Vaishnava should not try to minimize anyone else’s position. It is better to remain humble and meek and chant the Hare Krishna mantra. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 6.17.10 purport)
Find them here: https://goo.gl/cGnv9i

Further TOVP updates. (Album with photos)
Sadbhuja Das: Here’s some more pictures of what the ‘ribs’ on the outside of the (small) dome will look like. We’ve used gold paint as a 'mock-up’ on the sides, but in the final stage it will be a lot more golden as it will be made in Titanium Nitrade. Gauranga!!
Find them here: https://goo.gl/n8dKzA

TOVP update (Album with photos)
Sadbhuja Das: Some exciting new artwork has been happening. The first picture below shows you a real ‘mock-up’ of a coffered ceiling piece in GRC, painted by one of our Russian artists.
From this we took a photo which we copied and pasted to see the effect on a bigger scale. Although the colors may slightly change,
this is what the inner main dome & Nrsimhadeva’s inner dome will look like.
Next stage, we’ll do a 3D mock-up on the inner dome.
Find them here:

Iskcon Grammies?
Gaudiya Vaisnava songs are foundational to the spread of the Sankirtan movement. Every since the Radha Krishna album, devotees have been producing phenomenal arrangements of both traditional and innovative songs. There are too many great names of devotee composers, performers, and singers to mention here, but, thus far, there has been no formal recognition of their contribution. An awards festival to commend the various musical artists and bestow a Nityananda award is long overdue. Anyone interested in organizing, contributing, or be...

June 2. ISKCON 50 – S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations.
Satsvarupa dasa Goswami: Genuine Kirtana.
Exotic it was, yet anyone could see that a swami was raising an ancient prayer in praise of God. This wasn’t rock or jazz. He was a holy man, a swami, making a public religious demonstration. But the combination was strange: an old Indian swami chanting an ancient mantra with a storefront full of young American hippies singing along.
Prabhupada sang on, his shaven head held high and tilted, his body trembling slightly with emotion. Confident...

Offering to Srila Prabhupada on ISKCON 50th anniversary
Braja Mohan Das: I would like to compare your personality and glory with two of the biggest corporations. Now, there is this famous company Amazon, where they promise, everything under the sun can be delivered but you, Srila Prabhupada not just delivered everything under the sun but gave us a process to go above the sun to our supreme home, to the spiritual world. They also claim why they named their company as ‘Amazon’ as this word has an arrow from A to Z meaning everything is availab...

KK Bindu #376: All Attractive Hari-katha!
The latest issue of Sri Krishna-kathamrita Bindu e-magazine was just released. This issue includes:
* MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS FOR KIRTAN – Instructions from His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
* ALL-ATTRACTIVE HARI-KATHA – First time translations done especially for this issue of various commentaries on Srimad Bhagavatam 10.1.4.
* VRINDAVAN-DHAMA AND RADHA-NAMA – A fresh translation from Srila Prabodhananda Saraswati’s Vrindavan-mahimamrtam (9.84). It can be ...

Yogesvara Prabhu’s excellent presentation during the Srila Prabhupada annual festival in Los Angeles (video)
“How to present Srila Prabhupada to the non devotees”
Watch it here: https://goo.gl/jriwXT

“The End of the Beginning” (video)
Ekendra das discusses “The End of the Beginning” of ISKCON on its 50th anniversary in his talk at the recent Festival of Inspiration in New Vrindaban, West Virginia.
Watch it here: https://goo.gl/Tegynh

“Seven temples on seven hills” (Album with photos)
Varsana Swami: When I moved to New Vrindaban in 1972, this community was a “spiritual frontier”nestled within the rugged foothills of Appalachia.It was a community of devotees who were dedicated to Srila Prabhupada’s vision for New Vrindaban which holds sacred two primary mandates: (1) to live in harmony with one another, depend on nature, and protect Krishna’s cows; and (2) to develop a replica of Vrindavan.
The entire community was comprised of men and women en...

Sadhu Sanga Retreat (2016) (Album with 107 photos)
5th Annual Sadhu Sanga Kirtan Retreat at Art of Living Retreat Center in Bo......

June 1. ISKCON 50 – S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations.
Satsvarupa dasa Goswami: Swamiji’s Kirtana.
When the kirtana suddenly sprang up from the Swami’s cymbals and sonorous voice, they immediately felt that it was going to be something far out. Here was another chance to “trip out,” and willingly they began to flow with it. They would surrender their minds and explore the limits of the chanting for all it was worth. Most of them had already associated the mantra with the mystical Upanisads and Gita, which had called out to...